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1. It's no secret that the amount of computer users has been expanding rapidly.
2. This flow of information has led to an interest in intelligent agents, software
assistants that perform retrieving and developing information.
3. Currently, there are plenty of companies developing agent software.
4. These intelligent agents will be used in a range of applications including user
interfaces, desktop applications, messaging commerce and network management.
5. Combined with the ability to look and listen, intelligent agents will make personal
computers closer to behave in a human-like way.
6. It's not accidental that users often treat their personal computers as if they were
humans.
7. By making computers more "social" engineers hope to make them more user-
friendly.
LANGUAGE ACTIVITY
Exercise 1. Summarize your knowledge on the Conditional Sentences.
I. Translate the sentences into Russian.
1. If the evolution of AI proceeds so rapidly, it will be able to solve almost any
problem arisen.
2. If we asked the computer to estimate possible results of our activity, it would give
us a reliable answer.
3. Surely, they would have done much more, if they had used the last model of
computers.
4. If I had enough money, I would buy the newest model of computers.
5. Should I be late, begin the negotiations without waiting for me.
II. Put the words in brackets into the correct form.
1. If a computer can answer some questions better and quicker than a man can do, it
(to be) a man who formulates the questions.
2. If you asked what a software is, I (to note) it as "an applied thought".
3. It's obvious that if there (to be) no computers, the progress of civilization wouldn't
be so rapid.
4. Producing of computer memory working model would have been possible in
1939, if many people (to credit) the invention.
5. If Herbert Simon and Alan Newell hadn't succeeded in creating logic Theorist,
someone else (to do) it.
6. If there is no adequate software, no computer (can) be used.
7.
Had you backed up my opinion, the outcome (to be) more successful.
8. Were it permitted to our group to carry out the investigation, we certainly (to
finish) it on time.
Exercise 2. Complete the sentences.
1. If I were a genius, …
2. If my father were a tycoon of computer industry, …
3. If my girlfriend were a hacker, …
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